that question doesn't even make sense. What is a "project"? My Rails project is going to look radically different than someone's Go project, than a Rust project, than an iOS / Swift project....

if you're talking "project" in the Atom / Sublime / Eclipse sense of the word then a "project" is just a folder. If that's what you mean by "project" then yes, you can create folders in a text-based ui, and you've been able to do so since the dawn of unix, and basically every editor out there has an easy way to either create a folder with some clicks or enable direct access to the underlying shell to create one.